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King’s X Supporting Kansas On Fall Tour
King’s X. Kansas. Touring together. Yeah, this is happening. And it’s not coming ANYWHERE NEAR ME!!! DAMMIT!!! But seriously, how awesome of a tour is this? On top of the two legendary prog-rock bands performing, the one-man band That 1 Guy (Mike Silverman) will open on select dates. Tickets go on sale June 15th, unless otherwise noted. Tour dates are listed below.
King’s X will be touring in support of their latest release Live Love In London, a live offering recorded in 2009 at the Electric Ballroom.
Earlier this year, King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill suffered a severe heart attack and was hospitalized. Now he states, “Not too long ago I was thinking I might not ever get back on a stage, now I’m ready and with the ok from all my doctors. What better way to get back than to tour with the legendary KANSAS. Let’s rock…”
Original Kansas member Richard Williams (guitars): “We are really looking forward to the upcoming shows with KING’S X. They’re a great band and a force to be reckoned with. It’s a tour like this that allows us to dig a little bit deeper into our catalogue and play a few songs that KANSAS fans haven’t heard for a while. It’s gonna be a lot of fun!“
Tour dates:
September 13, 2012 – New York, NY @ Best Buy Theater
September 14, 2012 – Bethlehem, PA @ Sands Bethlehem Events Center
September 15, 2012 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Spa & Resort – Music Box
September 21, 2012 – St. Charles, IL @ Arcadia Theater * / **
September 22, 2012 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Myth ** / ***
October 5, 2012 – Salina, KS @ Steifel Theatre for Performing Arts *
October 6, 2012 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theatre
October 12, 2012 – Montgomery, AL @ Alabama National Fair ***
October 14, 2012 – Dallas, TX @ State Fair of Texas ** / ***
October 19, 2012 – Little Rock, AR @ Arkansas State Fair
* Tickets on sale June 1, 2012
** KING’S X is not confirmed for this date
*** THAT 1 GUY is not confirmed for this date
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Synthwave outfit GUNSHIP has released a new official music video this morning for their cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, The Hallow) supernatural horror film Whistle.
To bring it full circle, Corin Hardy directs the music video himself, incorporating previously unseen footage from Whistle. More specifically, the new music video features an extended sequence from the film.
This collaboration builds on GUNSHIP’s longstanding relationship with Hardy, who previously contributed vocals to the band’s track “Cthulhu.”
“Working with Corin is a total dream,” said GUNSHIP. “He’s an old friend who we bonded with over our love for cinema and music, and we were honored to have our song featured in the film. After the Whistle premiere, we were chatting over a pint, and he told us about a beautiful pseudo ‘one shot’ sequence he was heartbroken to lose in the final film. We suggested resurrecting it and using it as a music video. Corin got it immediately, and the result is perfect. It’s heartbreaking, haunting and pure 80s noir soaked.”
Corin Hardy added: “I wanted Whistle to feel like a horror movie I might have watched around the late 1980s, alongside films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, and The Breakfast Club. Films steeped in teen-angst and heightened feelings. Music was such a huge part of creating the romance of those cinematic worlds. Gunship’s synth-drenched cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was always top of my list. Their unique heart-on-your-sleeve sound was the perfect choice for a key moment in the movie. To come together post-release and create this extended music video is simply the cherry on top. Dan, Al & Al (Gunship) have provided the film a real companion piece in the world of Whistle… it makes me want my MTV again!”
It’s a fitting collaboration, as music serves a narrative purpose in Whistle. Music, the director told Bloody Disgusting, was a means of immersing viewers in this world and its characters’ perspectives. Hardy even touched on this particular track: “So in a way, the music you’ll listen to is effectively what Chrys is listening to, which is her dad’s record collection. Then there are other songs like the Gunship track, which is a Cyndi Lauper cover, which is more like Rel’s [Sky Yang] music. It comes in when we have a sequence in Rel’s romantic heartbreak moment. So yeah, I made a character list of who might be listening to what.”
Whistle sees a misfit group of unwitting high school students confronted with mortality when they blow a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, setting a terrifying chain of events in motion.
Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (Grizzly Night, “Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
The supernatural teen horror movie is available to stream on Shudder now.